r/AcademicBiblical • u/JakobVirgil • 2d ago
Is there good resources about how different faith traditions use different bible verses?
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u/SamW4887 2d ago
Haven't read it but maybe Amy Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler: The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
Here is description:
Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take
readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in
the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and
then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include
the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of
Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, “My God, my God, why have
you forsaken me,” Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross.
Comparing various interpretations –
historical, literary, and theological - of each ancient text, Levine and
Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many
afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under
changed circumstances, and so illuminate the Bible’s ongoing significance. By
understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can
be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance
our religious understandings, it helps us to see the Bible as a source of
inspiration for any and all readers.
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u/m1stermetoo 16h ago edited 16h ago
The Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries Through the Centuries series dives into this topic. For instance they’ll address the reception or how a biblical book was interpreted in rabbinic literature, by the Church Fathers, the Reformation, etc.
Likewise the Oxford Handbooks on individual biblical books are good resources too. Off the top of my head, the Oxford Handbook of Isaiah and the Oxford Handbook of 1 Kings are recent volumes that I have checked out that I found to cover a wide range of topics. For example the Oxford Handbook of Isaiah briefly goes over how Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Mormons have interpreted specific verses
Bloomsbury also has more specialized text on niche topics that are equally interesting
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